Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The most common tool to test malignancy in the study of thyroid nodules (TN) is ultrasound and fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB). However, the sensitivity and specificity of the methods and the effectiveness in thyroid cancer are limited; therefore new methods to study thyroid nodules are required. In this way our goal is to introduce hybrid diffuse optical instruments that are capable to measure and discriminate altered microvascular blood flow, blood volume an...